Posted on 06/10/2021 9:07:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Group sets sights on Manchin in effort to abolish ICE, advance reparations and single-payer health care
A left-wing advocacy group funded by George Soros and backed by 30 House Democrats is planning a yearlong campaign for a "Third Reconstruction" that includes abolishing ICE, expanding welfare for illegal immigrants, and removing criminal penalties for violent protesters.
The Poor People’s Campaign, which received a grant from the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations following the death of George Floyd as part of the organization’s $220 million "anti-racist" initiative, held a Day of Action on Monday to kick off its crusade. The group counts Democratic Reps. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) as top supporters, with the "Third Reconstruction" described to the Washington Free Beacon by a senior GOP Senate aide as the "next Green New Deal."
Neither the Poor People's Campaign nor the Open Society Foundations returned requests for comment.
In a release announcing the grant, which reached the Poor People's Campaign through one of its "anchor organizations," the Open Society Foundations touted groups "fighting for an end to policing as we know it." Alex Soros, deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations, added, "This is the time for urgent and bold action to address racial injustice in America."
The "Third Reconstruction" includes a laundry list of far-left demands such as automatic voter registration, a single-payer health care system, a reparations commission, and "relief from student debt, housing debt, utilities debt, medical debt, and other household and personal debt that cannot be paid." Despite proposing that the dozen-plus programs, estimated to cost well into the trillions of dollars, be financed "using deficit spending," the "Third Reconstruction" calls for a 10 percent cut to the military budget.
"With this resolution, we (1) acknowledge the deep harms we have suffered from systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, militarism and the false narrative of white supremacist nationalist extremism and (2) commit to heal and transform the nation by addressing these interlocking injustices, beginning with those most impacted, with moral and just laws and policies," the Poor People’s Campaign wrote on Facebook.
As part of their strategy to pressure Democrats into supporting the initiative, the Poor People’s Campaign will hold a march on Washington, D.C., in June 2022. In 2018, the group organized "40 Days of Action," which resulted in thousands of arrests. Protesters in dozens of states held sit-ins at government offices and blocked roads while demanding local legislators pass hikes to the minimum wage and expand welfare benefits.
On Monday, the group announced a protest against Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) over his decision not to support H.R. 1, a bill that radically overhauls how the nation conducts elections.
"They said it's time to march on his office," Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. William Barber said. "It’s time for people of all differences to stand together against him—we call it ‘from the hollers in the mountains to the hood.'"
Manchin previously met with the group to discuss a federal $15 minimum wage, although he later opposed the proposal. Democrats, including Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) and Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), claim the "Third Reconstruction" will "end poverty" and address the country’s income disparities allegedly caused by systemic racism. The language used by supporters of the "Third Reconstruction" follows much of the post-Civil War-era rhetoric from Democrats that has defined the early days of the Biden administration. The president’s recent failure to pass H.R. 1 came after his impassioned appeal to racial violence 100 years ago as evidence the country needs new voting rights today.
"For much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. But just because history is silent, it doesn’t mean that it did not take place," President Joe Biden said on June 1, which marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. "And while darkness can hide much, it can never erase what happened. That’s why we’re here: to shine a light, to make sure America knows the story in full."
Other Democrats, including Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York, who supports the "Third Reconstruction," called Manchin’s opposition to the bill an effort to "preserve Jim Crow." Biden himself has referred to GOP-led efforts to stop voter fraud as "Jim Crow in the 21st century."
Another reason why the best justice for Soros is for him and his family to find themselves stripped of every last dime that they have. Imagine George, at his age, being reduced to begging for change on a street corner in hopes of getting enough money to buy a sandwich.
I think they meant “Third Reich”...
“… and removing criminal penalties for violent protesters.”
Including Jan 6?
Imagine George, his family and all of his associates twisting, twisting slowly in the wind.
Remove penalties for violent protestors?
They’ve already done this. Violent protestors, Antifa, blm, democrats are hands off as they violently protest. Non violent protestors, Stop the Steal, Promise Keepers, conservatives get infiltrated, set up and rounded up. I doubt conservatives could get a pass on violent protests if they ever tried though.
That is too easy. They desire to create want and misery for others, so let the Soros Gang suffer instead. Imagine ol’ George scrounging for a newspaper so that he can have a blanket as he sleeps under a highway overpass. Imagine his worthless spawn sitting on a street corner, holding a battered cardboard sign pleading for loose change.
With piano wire?......well deserved
Some of my ancestors experienced “Reconstruction” (Total Corruption and Lawlessness Run Amuck.)
That crap will NOT SELL in Texas. NOT EVER.
If they really want a war, they will get it. The #ComDems already declared it and on November 3-4, 2020 foreign and domestic enemies attacked our nation with Pearl Harbor II.
Yes, that was what was used in Floesenberg Prison.
THE BEST JUICE FOR SOME PEOPLE IS NOT WELCHES, IT IS ELECTRIC
What a hairball of an organization.
This Kapo clown and all of his works needs to go away.
Soros has done more to move this county toward a third world pit than anyone in the world.
This Kapo clown and all of his works needs to go away.
Soros has done more to move this county toward a third world pit than anyone in the world.
Yes, that was what was used in Floesenberg Prison.
Yes, and if I remember correctly very slowly to those who were caught in the attempted assassination of Hitler.....too bad they didn’t succeed.
More undermining the US for eventual kumbaya world government?
Yes. Agree.
Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was killed that way.
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